Question

Complete the sentence with a suitable option:
His love for money is the only ______ that drives him to work so hard.
a) programme
b) plan
c) reason
d) greed

Answer 1

Hint: A noun is a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action. A noun is the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition.

Complete answer:
In the given question, we have to find out which of the given options include the answer which indicates that his love for money was the quality which drove him towards working hard.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question-
Option (a.), 'programme', refers to ‘an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event’.
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as it does not indicate that his love for money was the quality which drove him towards working hard.
Option (b.), ‘plan', refers to ‘have the will and intention to carry out some action’.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as it does not indicate that his love for money was the quality which drove him towards working hard.
Option (c.), ‘reason', refers to ‘a rational motive for a belief or action; an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon’.
Therefore, option (c.) is correct as it indicates that his love for money was the quality which drove him towards working hard.
Option (d.), ‘thing', refers to ‘any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence’.
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as it does not indicate that his love for money was the quality which drove him towards working hard.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of tenses. Tense is a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. There are three tenses - past, present, and future.